The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


dormant state for months, or years,
and revive in water at 72o.
Under new edict just promulgated
IN Japan criminals are not to be exc
euted singly. When there is one he
must wait until there is another to keep
him company.-Detroit Free Press.
r. NJ. Davis, known in the Ceur
d'Alenes as Dream Davis" who found
Dream Gulch in a vision and cleaned
up $4,000, has spent all his wealth and
committed suicide at Los Angeles, Cal.
"A Piute Indian was offered a pound
OF powder if he could eat five pounds of
boiled beef at one sitting, and he smiled
and wagged his jaws and devoured
eight pounds. He wanted more, but it
was poor day for beef.
"A man near Greeley, Col, had
thirty acres of land which he could
neither sell nor mortgage, and in
despair he went out and struck coal
vein thirteen feet thick and sold the
land for $5S, ,0O0.-N o. Times Demo
crdt.
An old skinfiint was looking for a
furnishedroom-"What will you charge
me for this one for a week?" he asked.
Thirty francs" I'm give you twen-
ty-five." mo, sir" "Come, let me
have it for that; the days are so short
now" French Exchange.
"A review of sunshine observations
in Great Britain has recently been pub
lished by the president of the Royal
Meteorological Society. 1t brings out
the interesting fact that in late autumn
and winter Ireland is much SUMMER
than England or Scotland.-M Y
Ledger.
Mrs. Ruth Smith, of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, dresses in blue silk, wears blue
spectacles, has her meals served on blue
glass dishes, and lives in a blue glass
room, which she has not left for more
than ten minutes at time for eight
years. Chicago Herald.
THAT'S mighty fine frescoing," re-
marked travelling man who with a
companion was visiting the Capitol in
Washington. Eyes. l wonder how
they got it up there" 80, it's prob
ably put on with ceiling wax" was the
reply, which severed lifelong friend.
ship.-Merchant fraceler.
House servants in Germany are
poorly paid. and work hard Their
duties begin frequently before daybreak
and continue sometimes till past mid
night. The floors must be scrubbed
every other day, and the windows every
week; for this a broom is not known,
but brush is the article used. For her
services a servant gets only about sixty
cents a week.
The progress in electric lighting
has been remarkable. In 1880 the CEN
sus man did not consider the invest
ment in this business of sufficient i'm
portance to warrant him in collecting
the data. In the six years that have
since interviewed the progress has been
so rapid that the investment in its vari-
Gus branches is rising S10O,000,O0O.
Among this seasons crop of jeux
d'esprit is the following sprightly little
anecdote, which is said to be true, and
is certainly good enough to be:
Edith" said stern Senator to his
daughter, sis that young man, who pays
you so much attention lately, a man OF
brainsP" 1--WE not had an opportunity
to find out, papa" replied Edith de-
murely, "Tve only met him in society"
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
"A Canadian farmer near Luther was
awakened by persons prowling around
his house. He and his son arose and
fired shotguns at a man they saw. He
ran and was joined by two men in a
sleigh. One of the horses hitched to
the sleigh cast shoe. The farmer
picked it up, and by the aid of the black
smith who made it identified the prowl-
ers, who proved to be neighbors, and
who paid a good sum to keep the thing
quiet.
1t is claimed that by a new process
whitewood can be made so tough as to
require a cold chisel to split it. The
result is obtained by steaming the tim
Der and submitting it to end pressure,
"upsetting" it, thus COM
pressing the cells and fibers into one
mass. tits the opinion of those
who have experimental with the process
that the wood can be compressed
seventy-five per cent, and that some
timber which is now considered unfit
for use in such work as carriage building
could be made valuable by this means.
Boston Budget.
"A writer in the american Angler,
in trying to demonstrate that fish have
the power of communicating with each
other, and also possess a degree of in.
telligence, says that he has seen on
several occasions small bodies of trout
following the lead of an elder and act
ing in accordance with its movements.
On three occasions he has observed a
shoal of carp approached by a single
which ultimately conducted
it to another part of the pond, where a
quantity of food existed.
1t is difficult to say just what ails
the editor of the Reporter, of Abilene,
Tex, but this is the way he takes on:
'.We have learned to bow and dance
% the music with nimble and elastic
step. It's wonderful how magical one
Ieels as the music floods the heart with
breaking up all gatherings
Of mist that environ the soul, and i'm